0h 54min, mar 4, 1837 y - MARCH 4, 1837 THE CITY CHICAGO IS INCORPORATED

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Within seven years it grew to more than 4,000 people. On June 15, 1835, the first public land sales began with Edmund Dick Taylor as U.S. Receiver of Public Monies. The City of Chicago was incorporated on Saturday, March 4, 1837, and for several decades was the world's fastest-growing city.

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